Team Effectiveness
Politics, Conflicts & Negotiations
Team Charcteristics and Processes
Puzzles 1
Puzzles 2
3

Attempts to find the halfway point to end conflict

Who is a compromiser? or 

What is a type of team-building role?

3

A conflict that focuses on interpersonal relationships.

What is Affective, behavioral, or relationship conflict?

3

Conscientious, agreeable, extraversion, openness to experience

What are team member personality traits?

3


What is 3?

3

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

What is a window?

5

Disclosing personal opinions inappropriately

Who is a self-confessor?

or 

What is an individual role that people should leave behind when entering teams?

5

When a conflict occurs within the person.

What is intrapersonal conflict?

5

Without any ego, switch between being a boss and an assistant, or a teacher and student as needed.

What is team learning?

5

what is the image trying to say?

What is travel overseas?

5

David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and _____?

Who is David?

7

The shared agreement about the rewards that the team earns

what is outcome interdependence or rewards?

7

Lack of Common Performance Standards, scarce resources

What are a few sources of conflict?

7

Through multiple or iterative rounds of anonymous questionnaires, the group will reach a consensus.

What is Delphi Technique?

7


What is A?

7

what doesn't belong?

What is 4?

10

Members interact with only a limited subset of other members to complete the team's work.

What is reciprocal interdependence?

10

The process by which individuals or groups attempt to realize their goals by bargaining with another party who has at least some control over goal attainment

What is negotiation?

10

Increase interactions among team members and with individuals and groups outside the team to generate new ideas and information.

What is boundary spanning?

10

A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?

What is 12 seconds?

10

I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?

What is a shirt?

15

Social loafing is lower here and higher there

What are small-sized and large-sized teams?

15

Payoff structure, primary motivation, primary interest, focus of relationships

What are bargaining characteristics?

15

Tone, perceptions, and bias, promptness of response, use of language, and emotional expressions

What are communicator issues?

15

A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got the following alibis:

  • The wife said she was sleeping.
  • The cook said he was cooking breakfast.
  • The gardener said he was planting seeds.
  • The maid said she was getting the mail.
  • The butler said he was polishing the silverware.

The police arrested the murderer immediately. Who was it?

Who is "Maid"?

15

Three people check into a hotel room that costs $30. They each contribute $10, handing $30 to the hotel clerk. Later, the hotel clerk realizes that there was a mistake, and the room only costs $25. The hotel clerk gives $5 to the bellboy and asks him to return it to the guests. However, the bellboy decides to keep $2 for himself and gives $1 back to each guest. Now, each guest has paid $9 (totaling $27) and the bellboy has kept $2, making $29. What happened to the missing dollar?

What is, "there is no missing dollar". The guests paid $27 instead of $30. ($25 to the hotel, and $2 to the bellboy)

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